From aldavis at wi.mit.edu Mon Jan 9 17:43:16 2006 From: aldavis at wi.mit.edu (Al Davis) Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:43:16 -0500 Subject: [CSBi-HPC] IBM cluster firewall upgrade Message-ID: <43C2E704.1050709@wi.mit.edu> We need to upgrade the OS on the firewall system for the Whitehead half of the IBM cluster. As there hasn't been much activity so far this year, we purpose to do it on Thursday or Friday of this week. Let me know asap if either of those days will cause a severe problem for any computations that you had planned. The firewall should only be down for several hours, but plan on it be unavailable for the whole day. Note: This won't affect any jobs that are currently running on the cluster as only the firewall will be impacted. We plan on upgrading the software on the cluster nodes over the next couple of months and will coordinate this with everyone. We'll upgrade a few nodes at a time so you can test your software on them to verify everything still works as before. This should provide us with a more stable system and better batch scheduling software - yeah. thanks, al -- Al Davis aldavis at wi.mit.edu | aldavis at mit.edu Systems Manager 617.324.0519 CSBi & WI/MIT BioImaging Center NE47 Rm 311 (500 Technology Sq) From aldavis at wi.mit.edu Wed Jan 11 13:15:52 2006 From: aldavis at wi.mit.edu (Al Davis) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:15:52 -0500 Subject: [CSBi-HPC] Star-P tutorial by Dr. Edelman Message-ID: <43C54B58.3050503@wi.mit.edu> FYI, Star-P tutorial course announcement from Dr. Edelman. Parallel MATLAB(r) with Star-P IAP TUTORIAL / Limited Enrollment DATE: Wednesday Feb 1, 2006 TIME: 10am-2pm LOCATION: Room 1-115 Professor Alan Edelman Dept of Mathematics CSAIL & ISC Dr. Vern Shrauger Interactive Supercomputing This one session tutorial will show how to obtain productivity with parallel computing using MATLAB. Our ideal students might be just starting to use a parallel computer, have little knowledge of parallel programming and prefer to work with the MATLAB desktop application. Participation is limited and is by advanced request to Alan Edelman (edelman at math.mit.edu ). Preference will be given to MIT students and researchers who already have an application in MATLAB that they are starting to or thinking about parallelizing. Please email Professor Edelman and describe your hopes. Ideal project characteristics: * Large and/or complex model that would lend itself to parallel programming * Prefer a familiar desktop tool like MATLAB, over using C++ and MPI for parallel programming * Shorten parallel code development time The tutorial will be hands-on. Every student will have access to Interactive Supercomputing's newly released product: Star-P. Interactive Supercomputing is an MIT spinoff building a parallel platform to connect the desktop to the high performance computers. -- Al Davis aldavis at wi.mit.edu | aldavis at mit.edu Systems Manager 617.324.0519 CSBi & WI/MIT BioImaging Center NE47 Rm 311 (500 Technology Sq) From mit.edelman at gmail.com Wed Jan 11 13:33:41 2006 From: mit.edelman at gmail.com (edelman@math.mit.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:33:41 -0500 Subject: [CSBi-HPC] JUST ANNOUNCED: parallel matlab iap event Message-ID: Note MIT csbi students and affiliates can have free use of Star-p off of my machine or otherwise the entire upcoming semester Alan Edelman --------------- JUST ANNOUNCED Parallel MATLAB(r) with Star-P IAP TUTORIAL / Limited Enrollment DATE: Wednesday Feb 1, 2006 TIME: 10am-2pm LOCATION: Room 1-115 Professor Alan Edelman Dept of Mathematics CSAIL & ISC Dr. Vern Shrauger Interactive Supercomputing This one session tutorial will show how to obtain productivity with parallel computing using MATLAB. Our ideal students might be just starting to use a parallel computer, have little knowledge of parallel programming and prefer to work with the MATLAB desktop application. Participation is limited and is by advanced request to Alan Edelman (edelman at math.mit.edu). Preference will be given to MIT students and researchers who already have an application in MATLAB that they are starting to or thinking about parallelizing. Please email Professor Edelman and describe your hopes. The tutorial will be hands-on. Every student will have access to Interactive Supercomputing's newly released product: Star-P. Interactive Supercomputing is an MIT spinoff building a parallel platform to connect the desktop to the high performance computers. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/csbi-hpc-users/attachments/20060111/9b59c90c/attachment.htm From aldavis at wi.mit.edu Fri Jan 27 09:41:05 2006 From: aldavis at wi.mit.edu (Al Davis) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:41:05 -0500 Subject: [CSBi-HPC] [Fwd: Re: BlueGene/L consortium -- open BG/L use] Message-ID: <43DA3101.8040703@wi.mit.edu> IBM has a "small" version of their newest computer (BlueGene/L) available for use. This is the same architecture as the one at LLNL - currently the worlds largest computational system, 128K cpus. Use the URL below to submit a proposal. For technical details contact Ed Geraghty, edgy at us.ibm.edu, or our IBM account rep, Steve Sakata, ssakata at us.ibm.com. Happy computing, al Edward Geraghty wrote: > If you need time on the BG/L machine in Yorktown IBM. Just submit your > proposal. Pass this on to anyone who might benefit. 2 BG/L racks is 2048 > dualcore processors. > http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/bgconsortium/BGWDay/bgw_consortium_day_at_watson2.htm > > EdGy > -- Al Davis aldavis at wi.mit.edu | aldavis at mit.edu Systems Manager 617.324.0519 CSBi & WI/MIT BioImaging Center NE47 Rm 311 (500 Technology Sq)